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This white paper provides an overview of how industrial 5G supports the implementation of Industry 4.0 concepts. One important aspect is integrating 5G into Industry 4.0 by defining 5G Asset Administration Shell (AAS). Integrating a 5G system into the factory of the future requires a suitable description of the 5G system based on AAS principles. In this paper various aspects are discussed and a model proposed for a structured description of the overall 5G network, including 5G UE (user equipment).

5G wireless communication is key to the advancement of industrial automation (Industry 4.0), opening up entirely new possibilities. The successful roll-out of 5G in these scenarios will therefore require the advance stress testing of wireless communication performance under realistic conditions. This 5G-ACIA white paper seeks to show how this (stress) performance testing can be achieved.

This white paper describes the functional requirements for exposing the capabilities of non-public 5G systems to connected industries and automation applications.

New white paper “Integration of 5G with Time-Sensitive Networking for Industrial Communications”: This white paper describes and examines integration of 5G with TSN for typical industrial use cases, namely controller-to-controller, controller-to-device and device-to-compute communications.